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Honey is a Superfood!

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Steven Pratt MD in his book Super Foods Health Style, calls honey a New Super Food. Super foods are foods that don't just provide nutrition, but actually improve your health. These are foods that you should not be living with out. According to Dr. Pratt, Superfoods such as honey can dramatically improve health, vigor and longevity.

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Honey is better for you than sugar

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Jennifer Ilana Ischayek, RD, and Mark Kern, PhD, RD, from San Diego University, analyzed four kinds of honey and found that they have slightly higher glycemic indices than sugar on a calorie to calorie basis. However because honey also contains antioxidants and has prebiotic properties it is better for you. In addition because the sugar composition is different from regular table sugar, Honey tastes sweeter than table sugar and less is required to get the same effect reducing a person's caloric intake.

 

 

Honey is better than cough syrup for kids

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Researchers at Penn State College of Medecine have shown that a teaspoon of honey is more effective at calming children's night time coughing than DM cough syrup. Read more:

Honey Beats Meds at Soothing Kids' Cough

Prescribing Honey For Childhood Cough

   

Wound Healing Properties of Honey

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Peter Molan at the University of Waikato in New Zealand has done extensive research on the effectiveness of honey for wound healing. He has found out that a honey has a number of properties that promote wound healing. Honey naturally has an antibiotic effect because of the high concentrations of sugars that can cause osmotic destruction of pathogens, but Molan has found that beyond this effect that certain kinds of honey also contain components that enhance the healing of wounds.

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